Business Intelligence: Data Analysis, visualization and reporting

In this day and age it is no surprise for corporate staff to be overwhelmed by the abundance of unstructured data. ERPs and databases have evolved to a point where they can house amazingly large amounts of data. The question now is, what do you do with this data to add value? This program will introduce Business Intelligence (BI), hands-on, to allow you to clean, normalize, and interpret large volumes of data. You will be able to establish historical relationships, analyze the current situation and predict future strategies. The application of BI is borderless, covering operational, tactical and strategic business decisions. It spans all departments and cascades down to all users who perform data cleansing, reporting, analysis, modeling, integration and automation. In this course we use MS Excel exclusively as an ultimate and readily available BI tool allowing you to develop an exclusive level of expertise and add immediate value to your job and company. By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Boost Excel Business Intelligence (BI) expertise in data slicing and dicing, data massaging, and data aggregation and modeling
• Perform data normalization, consolidation, report writing, analysis and reconciliation
• Develop dynamic BI models, dashboards, scorecards and flash management reports by linking-up Excel with Access, Web, Text, Internet, SQL, ERPs and other databases

Content

Data Analysis Tools and Techniques

• Consolidating Data and Data Validation
• Powerful array functions
• Cell management tools
• The incredible table-tools technique
• Text change functions

Mastering Data Reporting

• Creating Pivot Tables
• Number Formatting Techniques
• Designing Report Layout
• Linking Pivot Tables and pivot graphs with PowerPoint

Data Modeling and Integration

• Spinner
• Check box data modeling with if function
• Option button data modeling with if function
• List box data modeling with choose function
• Scenario manager

Charting and Visualization Techniques

• Working with Formula-Driven Visualizations
• Using Fancy Fonts
• Leveraging Symbols in Formulas
• Working with Sparklines
• Creating Unconventional Style Charts

For Whom: Business professionals, business analysts, data analysts, research analysts, finance professionals, marketing and sales professionals, HR professionals, IT professionals, administrative staff, supervisors, general business professionals and staff from any function who need to learn and apply state-of-the-art data analysis techniques to their daily business reporting and decision making.